Top Ten Innovation Books

The Fox Business Centre has identified its list of the all time top ten books for innovation. Here are some links to the books, and interviews with some of the authors.

1. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
   By Eric Ries
   Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
   
   
   


2. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
   By Clayton M. Christensen
   How does a successful company with established products keeps from being pushed aside by newer, cheaper products that will, over time, get better and become a serious threat.
   
   
   
   


3. Innovation You: Four Steps to Becoming New and Improved
   By Jeff Degraff
   In today's frenetic, uncertain world, the "same old, same old" routines are perfect ways to go nowhere fast. What has worked for you before – professionally or personally – no longer gets results.
   
   
   
   


4. Innovation and Entrepreneurship
   By Peter F. Drucker
   This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy.
   
   
   


5. Leading the Revolution
   By Gary Hamel
   Gary Hamel, world-renowned business thinker and coauthor of "Competing for the Future", the book that set the management agenda for the 1990s, now delivers an agenda for the twenty-first century with the national bestseller, "Leading the Revolution".
   
   
   


6. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
   By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton M. Christensen
   In The Innovator's DNA, authors Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and bestselling author Clayton Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution) build on what we know about disruptive innovation to show how individuals can develop the skills necessary to move progressively from idea to impact.
   
   


7. Innovate!: How Great Companies Get Started in Terrible Times
   By Thomas A. Meyer
   Innovate!: How Great Companies Get Started in Terrible Times is first and foremost a source of true inspiration based on history. But it goes much further than that. It captures the lessons of these great innovative individuals and companies that began in the worst economic times, identifying the philosohies, strategies, and essential keys to success during your own challenging economic times.


8. The Innovative Leader: How to Inspire Your Team and Drive Creativity
   By Paul Sloane
   The Innovative Leader stresses the importance of innovation and creativity in modern business to help organizations secure competitive advantage over rivals. It shows how to apply methods of innovation and creativity to the individual, to business peers, and to the organization.
   
   


9. Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance
   By Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell A. Nordstrom
   More products, more markets, more people, more competition. In a world of abundance and excess, competition is total and competition is personal. Difference rules. If you think about it, most of what your business does could be bought from someone else using the Yellow Pages or an Internet search engine. How are you going to be attractive? By being more efficient? By doing it cheaper? Come on!


10. How to Get Ideas
    By Jack Foster
    How To Get Ideas answers the basic questions of where do ideas come from, why do some people get so many of them, and is there some secret technique to getting more of them. How To Get Ideas answers these questions and demonstrates that any reader, regardless of age or skill, employment or training, can come up with more ideas, faster and easier than ever before in his or her life.